Confirmed Speakers & Artists at the Raumwelten Conference
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Daan Roosegaarde
Artist, Innovator, Studio Roosegaarde, Rotterdam/Shanghai
Daan Roosegaarde
Vita
Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde (1979) is a creative thinker and maker of
social designs which explore the relation between people, technology and space.
He founded Studio Roosegaarde in 2007, where he works with his team of designers and engineers towards a better future. Together they develop ‘Landscapes of the Future’ building smart sustainable prototypes for the cities of tomorrow.
Roosegaarde: “I don’t believe in a utopia, I believe in a protopia: a prototype world that we are improving step by step. We do not know what the future looks like and what challenges that entails. What we do know is that there is no way back. If we do not invest in new ideas, we will die. We are all part of the prototype. Let us not be afraid, but be curious and work together.”
Roosegaarde has been driven by nature’s gifts such as light emitting fireflies and jellyfish since an early age. His fascination for nature and technology is reflected in his iconic designs such as Waterlicht (a virtual flood) and Smog Free Project (the largest outdoor air purifier in the world which makes jewellery from smog) and Space Waste Lab (the mission to upcycle junk that floats in space).
Roosegaarde graduated from The Berlage Institute with a master in architecture.
He is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a visiting professor at several universities, was selected by Forbes and Good 100 as a creative change maker and named Artist of the Year 2016 in The Netherlands.
Roosegaarde has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the Shenzhen Global Design Award, Ethics Ethical Award, World OMOSIROI Award Japan, Dezeen Award, London Design Innovation Medal, DFA Gold and Grand Award Hong Kong, LIT 2017 Lighting Designer of the Year Award, D&AD Awards 2017, the World Technology Award, two Dutch Design Awards, the Charlotte Köhler Award, and China’s Most Successful Design Award. He has exhibited at the Design Museum London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tate Modern, Tokyo National Museum, Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris, Victoria & Albert Museum, and various public spaces across the globe. Daan Roosegaarde frequently shares his visionary ideas at conferences across the world such as TED , World Economic Forum and NASA. Recently a new monograph of Daan Roosegaarde was published by Phaidon.
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Ren Yee
Head of UNSense Consultancy / Innovation Strategy and Forecasting, UNStudio, Amsterdam
Ren Yee
Vita
Ren Yee plays dual roles at UNStudio and UNSense. As head of UNSense Consultancy, he leads one of the key drivers of the arch tech company that focusses on strategy, concept and design of technological applications in the built environment. He works closely with cities, developers, tech solutions and researchers to implement tech-enabled concepts to improve the quality of life and health of the people and the planet. As Head of Innovation Strategy and Forecasting at UNStudio, Ren is also leading in-house research unit UNSFutures. In both roles, Ren is a sought-after lecturer and speaker at design and architectural events and conferences.
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Nathalie van Sasse van Ysselt
Creative Director, Madison Square Garden, New York City
Nathalie van Sasse van Ysselt
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Nathalie van Sasse van Ysselt is a passionate , creative director, experience designer and film maker creating immersive and collective experiences, shows and events. She is currently working as Immersive Creative Director for Madison Square Garden on the upcoming Sphere project in Las Vegas. She is a mentor for NewInc in New York City, an incubator for new talent working at the intersection of art, design and technology, sponsored by the New Museum. For the past two years, she was creative lead of Moment Factory’s NY office and director of the newly launched event space at Cipriani 25 Broadway – a 22K resolution, projection mapped landmark building in Manhattan which hosts multimedia events and the immersive pop-up experience SuperReal.
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Mitchell Joachim
Co-President, Terreform One, New York City
Mitchell Joachim
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Mitchell Joachim is Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and an Associate Professor of Practice at NYU. Formerly, he was an architect at the offices of Frank Gehry and I.M. Pei. He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and fellowships with TED, Moshe Safdie, and Martin Society for Sustainability, MIT. He was chosen by Wired magazine for “The Smart List” and selected by Rolling Stone for “The 100 People Who Are Changing America”. Mitchell won many honors including; Lafarge Holcim Acknowledgement Award, Ove Arup Foundation Grant, ARCHITECT R+D Award, AIA New York Urban Design Merit Award, 1st Place International Architecture Award, Victor Papanek Social Design Award, Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability, Architizer A+ Award, History Channel Infiniti Award for City of the Future, and Time magazine’s Best Invention with MIT Smart Cities. He’s featured as “The NOW 99” in Dwell magazine and “50 Under 50 Innovators of the 21st Century” by Images Publishers. He co-authored four books, “Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities,” “XXL-XS: New Directions in Ecological Design,” “Super Cells: Building with Biology,” and “Global Design: Elsewhere Envisioned”. His design work has been exhibited at MoMA and the Venice Biennale. He earned: PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch Columbia University.
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Jeppe Hein
Artist, Studio Jeppe Hein, Berlin
Jeppe Hein
Vita
Jeppe Hein is a Danish artist based in Berlin. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen and the Städel Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt a. M.
Jeppe Hein is widely known for his production of experiential and interactive artworks that can be positioned at the junction where art, architecture, and technical inventions intersect. Unique in their formal simplicity and notable for their frequent use of humor, his works engage in a lively dialogue with the traditions of Minimalist sculpture and Conceptual art of the 1970s. Jeppe Hein’s works often feature surprising and captivating elements which place spectators at the centre of events and focus on their experience and perception of the surrounding space.
Solo shows include Breathe with Me at UN Headquarters and in Central Park, New York City (2019); Kunstmuseum Thun (2018); Château La Coste (2017); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2015); Brooklyn Bridge Park New York (2015); Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2013); 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2011); IMA – Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis (2010); ARoS Kunstmuseum, Århus (2009); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2009); Carré d’Art, Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes (2007); Sculpture Center, New York (2007); The Curve, Barbican Art Centre, London (2007); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2005) and P.S.1. MOMA, New York (2004) among others.
Permanent installations are on view at La Guardia Airport, USA (2020); Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles Island (2018); Kistefos-Museet, Norway (2016); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2013); City of Perth (2012); KUNSTEN Museum for Modern Art Aalborg (2011) and Bristol University (2009) among others.
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Gilles Retsin
Automated Architecture Ltd, London
Gilles Retsin
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Originally from Belgium, Gilles Retsin is an architect and designer living in London. He studied architecture in Belgium, Chile and the UK, where he graduated from the Architectural Association. His design work and critical discourse has been internationally recognised through awards, lectures and exhibitions at major cultural institutions such as the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Royal Academy in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Gilles Retsin is Programme Director of the M.Arch Architectural Design at UCL, the Bartlett School of Architecture. He is co-founder of AUAR ltd ( Automated Architecture) a design-tech consultancy based in London.
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Cedric Kiefer
Co-Founder / Creative Lead onformative, Berlin
Cedric Kiefer
Vita
Guided by an emotional approach, Berlin based studio onformative constantly searches for new forms of creative expression. Through an experimental practice they create meaningful digital art works to question the relationship between humans and technology. Their outcomes and interpretations take on varying forms across media through self-initiated and commissioned works that range from interactive media installations, generative design and dynamic visuals to data-driven narratives. Works by onformative have been exhibited across Europe as well as in North America, Australia and China.
As the co-founder and creative lead at onformative, Cedric develops and directs projects to define the creative vision of the studio. Cedric’s fascination with science, technology and art fuels the development of new projects at onformative. Parallel to his work at the studio, he regularly teaches and talks about digital art and design at international universities, conferences and festivals.
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Sven Klomp
Scenographer, Lecturer, Hamburg
Sven Klomp
Vita
Sven Klomp lives in Hamburg and, as a scenographer, makes the spatial experiencing of stories possible: At Klimahaus Bremerhaven, he takes visitors on a journey along longitude 8° East, and visitors of Buddenbrookhaus Lübeck are provided with a spatial experience of the fate of Thomas Mann’s children. With the artistic method of exploring space “Aufmerksam für das Gewöhnliche” (attentive to the ordinary), which he developed, he invites people to change their perspective on their own everyday world – at universities, or in projects in the fields of exhibition, perception and communication, among others. In digital space, he is the creator and administrator of the “Scenography” Facebook Group. Since 2016, he has been creative director and a member of the management board at Impuls-Design. Audience participation and involvement are central to his work.
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Patrik de Jong
Creative Director, Artificial Rome
Patrik de Jong
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Patrik is the Creative Director of Artificial Rome. It’s not always the easiest job when you’re dealing with a bunch of individualists and – let’s face it – nerds. Astonishingly, he manages to keep up with this matter-of-fact feature and still works as an excellent designer with an ingenious output.
Born in 1979 in Bochum, Germany, he started out by the age of 18 and was dragged along by the new economy hype.
Aged 20 Patrik started freelancing at various advertising agencies (W+K, HiRes!, Leo Burnett, Tribal DDB amongst others), studying Communication & Illustration Design in the meantime. In 2004 he teamed up with Dirk Hoffmann, they would co-found Artificial Rome in 2014. Since then, the team has, in successive years, received many awards in prestigious competitions including the Cannes Lions, the Art Directors Club, the Red Dot Award and the New York Festivals.
Patrik has been a speaker at the OFFF Festival, Resonate, ADC Conference, Playground Festival and was Guest Lecturer at the HAW, FH Lübeck and the Miami Ad School.
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Franziska Ritter
Scenographer, Project Manager “Im/material Theatre Spaces – Augmented and Virtual Reality for Theatre”
Franziska Ritter
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Franziska Ritter is a scenographer and studied architecture at the TU Berlin and at the University of North London. She is co-founder and research assistant of the study course Bühnenbild_Szenischer Raum TU Berlin and teaches exhibition design and theater construction at many other universities. As Commissioner for Digitality and New Technologies of the Deutschen Theatertechnischen Gesellschaft she is currently leading the project “Im/material Theatre Spaces – Augmented and Virtual Reality for Theatre”. Musically she plays the flute with the Ensemble Opus 45 and is the initiator of the music format 1:1 CONCERTS.
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Thomas E. Bauer
Artistic Director, Konzerthaus Blaibach,
Founder Kulturwald Festival
Thomas E. Bauer
Thomas E. Bauer
Vita
*1970 in Metten, Bavarian Forest, Germany
Concert singer and impresario
Musikgymnasium Regensburger Domspatzen
Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
Performances: Boston Symphony Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie de Paris, Singapore Esplanade, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Shanghai Oriental Center, Musikverein Wien, Sala São Paulo, La Scala Milano, Royal Albert Hall London
Musical collaborators: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Herbert Blomstedt, Sir Roger Norrington, Riccardo Chailly, Bernard Haitink, John Eliot Gardiner, Zubin Mehta
Awards: Stanley Sadie Prize London, Orphée d’Or Paris, Aoyama Award Kyoto, Schneider-Schott Musikpreis, Echo Klassik, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
Artistic Director, Konzerthaus Blaibach; Founder, Kulturwald Festival/Festspiele Bayerischer Wald
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Constanze Fischbeck
Stage Designer, film maker and curator “stage theatre”, Berlin
Foto: Matthias Broneske
Constanze Fischbeck
Vita
Constanze Fischbeck works as filmmaker, stage designer, curator and lecturer in the context of theatre and art. Her artwork is based on the space and present of specific locations and their societal contexts. Her cinematic works combine the analysis of spaces with performative, documentary and discursive approaches.
Her work was presented at various festivals, art institutes and theatres.
She studied set design between 1992-97 at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee.
Constanze Fischbeck’s artistic work processes are often collaboratively and in dialogue with directors, choreographers and artists.
From 2009-2015 she developed the international research – film and art project state – theater # 1-6 (with Daniel Kötter) in the cities of Lagos, Tehran, Berlin, Detroit, Beirut and Mönchengladbach, which is an extensive exploration about the conditions of performativity. It has been presented internationally (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Architecture Biennale Venice, SALT Istanbul, Art Museum Nanjing, National Gallery Singapore, Segal Center Festival New York) and won prizes at architectural and experimental film festivals.
Since 2007 she teaches as a lecturer, for instance at the HBK Braunschweig, the HfG Karlsruhe, the RUB Bochum, the HMT Leipzig, the University Hildesheim, the UdK Berlin and from October 2019 as Professor for Scenography at the HfG Karlsruhe.
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Hubert Lepka
Choreographer and Director,
Director of artists network Lawine Torrèn, Moosdorf (Austria)
Hubert Lepka
Vita
Hubert Lepka, Choreograph und Regisseur, geboren 1958, studierte Gesang und zeitgenössischen Tanz am Mozarteum und promovierte in Rechtswissenschaft an der Universität Salzburg. Er ist Leiter des Künstlernetzwerkes Lawine Torrèn (www.lawinetorren.com), das seit 1992 komplexe Choreographien in offenen Räumen kreiert. Er lebt und arbeitet mit seiner Familie am Passauergut in Moosdorf im südlichen Innviertel, nahe Salzburg.
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Dr. Simon J. Walter
Cultural Comissioner, Stiftung Deutsche Bestattungskultur, Düsseldorf
Foto: Bundesverband Deutscher Bestatter e. V.
Dr. Simon J. Walter
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Simon J. Walter, Dr. phil., is a historian and works as the cultural representative of the Stiftung Deutsche Bestattungskultur in the Kuratorium Deutsche Bestattungskultur e. V. in Düsseldorf. He is also jointly responsible for the cultural sector at the specialist publishing house of the German funeral trade and in this capacity is also responsible for the editorial work of the trade journal ‘bestattungskultur’. Various publications. Membership in various associations and research initiatives.
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Dara Smith
Electronic Duo „Lakker“, Berlin/Dublin
Dara Smith (Lakker)
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Dara Smith is one of the two heads of the Irish electro duo Lakker, who produce acoustic spaces with their minimalist sounds and pulsating sound collages. Hard rhythms alternate with melancholic and harmonic passages. Not without reason they were signed by the legendary Belgian electro label R&S Records (Aphex Twins, Ken Ishii, James Blake, among others)! Lakker’s ambient sound sculptures are complemented by real-time visuals that fuse their music with geometric and abstract images and recordings of nature. Smith presents an audiovisual live set with excerpts from the current Lakker program.
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Michael Fiedler
Musician & Producer, Stuttgart
Michael Fiedler
Vita
Foto: Adriana Kovacs
born 1978 in Löbau, works in Stuttgart as a freelance musician and producer.
Fiedler’s focus is on experimental electronic music and sound exploration.
His musical spectrum ranges from soundtrack compositions for film (“Die Tochter”, ZDF, Annagemina) to commissioned works for independent theaters, live concerts and collaborations with various artists and colleagues of various genres. Among them Friedemann Vogel, first soloist of the Stuttgart Ballet, performance artist and blues musician Thomas Putze, and video artist Timo Dufner.
Under the name ANNAGEMINA, in duo with Anna Illenberger, several groundbreaking, successful avant-garde pop albums have been produced in recent years. In his project JAH SCHULZ, the versatile musician passionately experiments with “dub mixing” – the intuitive playing with reverb and echo, a production method that was developed in the early 70s in the studios of Jamaica, and he also uses it across genres in his other music projects.
Fiedler uses various improvisation techniques with digital and analog instruments and effect devices. So-called field recordings are often incorporated, which help to give the sound a distinctive character.
As a live musician Michael Fiedler has been booked for concert stages and underground clubs, galleries and theaters throughout Europe since 1999. He has played about 1000 concerts in various constellations, including in Ireland, Greece, Romania, Spain, Switzerland and Austria.
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Prof. Nik Hafermaas
Managing Partner Creation, Graft Brandlab, Berlin
Prof. Nik Hafermaas
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As an internationally recognized and awarded artist, designer, and educational leader, Nik is a regularly featured keynote speaker on creative leadership topics at conferences across the globe.
He is a passionate advocate for integrated art and design programs across all media formats. As innovator and initiator of creative collaborations between art and industry, education and research, he has founded the artist platform Ueberall International, specialized in exhibitions and art+tech installations converging digital media and spatial experiences.
Leading the Graphic Design Departments at renowned Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, Nik has created a revolutionary transmedia curriculum, by fusing print, packaging, motion and visual interaction design.
As the new Managing Partner Creation at Graft Brandlab in Berlin, he is expanding the creative integration of digital experiences into the physical environment. Nik and his team are designing the relationship between groundbreaking technology and being human.
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Ruth Scheel
Concepter, Creative Consultant, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel
Ruth Scheel
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Ruth Scheel teaches at the University of Art and Design in Basel and works as a freelance concept developer and creative consultant in the fields of scenography, retail design and sustainability. In addition to a Master of Arts in European Media at the University of Portsmouth, she received a Master of Arts in Scenography at Central Saint Martins College of Art London in 2004. Since then, Ruth Scheel has passed on her knowledge of the interplay between communication, media and narrative spaces in various teaching assignments and lectures.
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Heike Bruckner
Architect, Bruckner Ganzheitliche Planung, Bregenz (AT)
Heike Bruckner
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Heike Bruckner grasps with an emphasis on Geomancy the spiritual and energetic identity of a place, in order to consider these in architecture, art or landscape planning. This approach becomes obvious in her current projects, for example the agricultural multi-purpose building in Röthis, for which she won the Vorarlberger timber construction prize in the commercial building category in 2019.
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Dirk Hebel
Professor for Sustainable Construction, KIT Karlsruhe
Dirk Hebel
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Dirk E. Hebel is Professor for Sustainable Construction and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
He is the author of numerous book publications, most recently Addis Ababa: A Manifesto on African Progress (2018), Cultivated Building Materials (2017), or Building from Waste (2014).
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Carina Ernst
Scenographer, Interior Designer, VerA – Verband der Ausstellungsgestalter in Deutschland e.V., Berlin
Carina Ernst
Carina Ernst
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As a freelance interdisciplinary designer specializing in interior architecture, product design and curation, Carina Ernst conceives, inter alia, interiors, exhibitions, new formats, showcases and furniture. At Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences, she teaches spatial communication in the Visual Communication study programme. At VerA – Verband der Ausstellungsgestalter in Deutschland e.V. (association of exhibition designers in Germany) – she is active on a voluntary basis and was, among other things, in charge of project management for the HOAS – Honorarordnung für Ausstellungsgestaltung (fee regulations for exhibition design) as well as for the symposium Szenografie + die Kunst der Zahlen (scenography + the art of numbers).
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Marina Bauernfeind
Project Manager, nextmuseum.io, Ulm/Düsseldorf
Marina Bauernfeind
Marina Bauernfeind
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Since July 2020, Maria Bauernfeind has been the project manager of nextmuseum.io at Museum Ulm, which operates the digital platform in cooperation with NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. The expert for creative marketing started her professional career at Hubert Burda Media with stations in Offenburg, Munich and Paris, before she became self-employed in 2009. Having worked for Hugo Boss AG and the Stiftung Hochschule für Gestaltung HfG Ulm (Foundation for the Ulm School of Design), she and David Löwe founded the agency Bauernfeind + Löwe in 2014, which has since realised numerous classic print and innovative digital campaigns, brand and design developments as well as events and stage productions.
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Domenico Bergamin
formerly: Project Manager, Steiner Sarnen Schweiz AG, Sarnen (Suisse)
Domenico Bergamin
Domenico Bergamin
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Having grown up in the Grison Alps, Domenico Bergamin came into contact with tourism and leisure activities at an early age. He completed a retail apprenticeship in a sports shop at a tourism destination, then studied sports science with a focus on sports tourism, followed by a master programme in business administration at the University of Bern. In addition, he worked as a snow sports instructor and in various restaurants, hotels and destinations, before spending five years as a research assistant at the Institute for Tourism and Leisure (ITF) at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons, where he focused on alpine tourism. In the following four years, he managed numerous international offer development projects at Steiner Sarnen Schweiz AG, an agency for experience staging.
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Pablo Dornhege
Freelance Scenographer, Commissioner for Digitality and New Technologies of Deutsche Theatertechnische Gesellschaft
Pablo Dornhege
Pablo Dornhege
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Pablo Dornhege researches, develops, and designs real and virtual narrative spaces within the scope of his design studio 105106. While studying visual communication at Berlin University of the Arts, he focused on digital and analogue space systems. As a visiting professor there, he headed the exhibition design / design of spatial systems programme, which is where he began his exploration of virtual worlds and their possibilities for expanding “classic” narrative spaces. In addition to his work as a freelance scenographer, he teaches and researches at several universities in Germany and abroad. Together with Franziska Ritter, he leads the AR/VR project “Im/material Theatre Spaces” and is a representative for digitality and new technologies at the German Theatre Technical Society (DTHG).
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Iain Dilthey
Director, Screenwriter, Berlin
Heike Bruckner
Vita
Heike Bruckner grasps with an emphasis on Geomancy the spiritual and energetic identity of a place, in order to consider these in architecture, art or landscape planning. This approach becomes obvious in her current projects, for example the agricultural multi-purpose building in Röthis, for which she won the Vorarlberger timber construction prize in the commercial building category in 2019.
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Sophia Firgau
Exhibition Designers, Fachhochschule Dortmund – University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Department of Design
Sophia Firgau
Sophia Firgau
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Sophia Firgau is a cultural educator and scenographer. She is particularly interested in participatory exhibition formats and the intersections between museums, performance art, public spaces, and political education. Currently, she is completing her master’s degree with a thesis on the topic of “Tagebücher von Mitläufer*innen als Potenzial für die Erinnerungskultur” (Diaries of followers as potential for the culture of remembrance).
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Jan Firgau
Exhibition Designers, Fachhochschule Dortmund – University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Department of Design
Sophia Firgau
Sophia Firgau
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Jan Firgau is a lighting and exhibition designer with a passion for the world of theatre and atmospheric staging. For him, a strong dramaturgy and the emotional involvement of visitors are central components of new exhibition concepts. His final thesis deals with the propagated image of women during the years of National Socialism and the scenographic elaboration of a critical space of remembrance.
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Manuel Peris
Student Virtual Design, HS Kaiserslautern
Manuel Peris
Manuel Peris
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Manuel Peris is a master’s degree student in the virtual design course at the University of Applied Life Sciences Kaiserslautern. He works as a creative technologist on the Museum of the Future research project.
His main topics are spatial computing, real-time staging, and experimental design in virtual space. Manuel Peris’ previous work has already received numerous awards. He is also a junior member of the Art Directors Club für Deutschland e.V. (ADC).
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Jimmy Schmid
Coordinator Research Fields Environmental Communication Design and Knowledge Visualization, Bern University of the Arts
Prof. Jimmy Schmid
Prof. Jimmy Schmid
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Jimmy Schmid has been Professor of Visual Communication at the Bern University of the Arts since 2001 and head of the part-time continuing education course “Signaletik – Environmental Communication Design” since 2008, a course that is unique in Europe. He is coordinator of the research fields of Environmental Communication Design and Knowledge Visualization at the Institute of Design Research as well as a permanent member of the Health Care Communication Design HCCD working group.
He is also guest lecturer and expert at various national and institutes of higher education as well as institutions and does research work in the fields of orientation and spatial communication.
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Fabienne Hoelzel
Founder FABULOUS URBAN, Zürich (Suisse)
Sophia Firgau
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Jan Firgau is a lighting and exhibition designer with a passion for the world of theatre and atmospheric staging. For him, a strong dramaturgy and the emotional involvement of visitors are central components of new exhibition concepts. His final thesis deals with the propagated image of women during the years of National Socialism and the scenographic elaboration of a critical space of remembrance.
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Robin T. Treier
Artist, Media Expert and Entrepreneur, Stuttgart
Manuel Peris
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Manuel Peris is a master’s degree student in the virtual design course at the University of Applied Life Sciences Kaiserslautern. He works as a creative technologist on the Museum of the Future research project.
His main topics are spatial computing, real-time staging, and experimental design in virtual space. Manuel Peris’ previous work has already received numerous awards. He is also a junior member of the Art Directors Club für Deutschland e.V. (ADC).
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Caroline Tao Niang Liem
Production Designer, Architect in spe, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg
Prof. Jimmy Schmid
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Jimmy Schmid has been Professor of Visual Communication at the Bern University of the Arts since 2001 and head of the part-time continuing education course “Signaletik – Environmental Communication Design” since 2008, a course that is unique in Europe. He is coordinator of the research fields of Environmental Communication Design and Knowledge Visualization at the Institute of Design Research as well as a permanent member of the Health Care Communication Design HCCD working group.
He is also guest lecturer and expert at various national and institutes of higher education as well as institutions and does research work in the fields of orientation and spatial communication.
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Neele Marie Denker
Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel, Germany
Foto: Neele Marie Denker
Neele Marie Denker
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Neele Marie Denker is a spatial designer, curator, and project manager focusing on collective projects in physical and digital space. Her work explores and experiments with the processes of design, art, and space. Her tools are performative and experimental, formats that range from exhibitions and workshops to interventions, installations, and scenography. Working across different media and multi-disciplinary, one can say that her work lays somewhere between conceptual processes, design, and collaborative design practice.
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Johannes Plass
CEO & Founder, Mutabor, Hamburg
Johannes Plass
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Johannes Plass studied at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, launched the magazine MUTABOR from there and received his diploma in holistic communication working with BMW. In Kiel he also got to know MUTABOR’s co-founder Heinrich Paravicini. MUTABOR specializes in branding across the entire touchpoint spectrum.
Johannes Plass is an entrepreneur at heart and a passionate expert in experiential marketing. He works with large automobile companies to sharpen their own brands and helps position them within the context of trade fairs and events. Most recently MUTABOR has partnered with Audi, Daimler-Commercial Vehicles, Volkswagen and the VDA (German Association of the Automotive Industry).
Statement
The “Brand Experience Industry” has to reinvent itself.
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Georg Fuhrmann
CEO, Lightshape, Stuttgart
Georg Fuhrmann
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Born in Stuttgart in 1969, finished school with Abitur (comparable to A-levels), studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart, graduating with a degree in engineering.
During his studies he went astray towards computer animation and opened his own office for architectural visualisation. Completed his studies, nevertheless. Afterwards employed at jangled nerves Stuttgart, 3 years as head of the 3D department. Followed by 6 years at RTT Munich, pioneer of real-time visualisation in the automotive sector, responsible for Porsche and their media productions. Then at Mackevision Stuttgart, 2 years as art director. Since 2015 managing partner at Lightshape with focus on interactive and classic media productions in the automotive and technology sector.
https://www.lightshape.net/
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Merle Kolb
Space Strategist/Spatial Designer/Artist, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel
Merle Kolb
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Merle Kolb is an artist, spatial designer and curator. Her works are located between experiment (searching is different than finding) and utopias (feminist futures, social dreaming + system hacking) and concentrate on manual manufacturing processes, ecological and social contexts and the connections that we could / should make. She is currently a Master Student in the Department of Spatial Strategies at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel.
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Steffen Armbruster
CEO, FRAMED Immersive Project, Berlin
Steffen Armbruster
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Steffen Armbruster has been working in the production of spatial media installations for almost 25 years. During his time as head of the 3D & Motion Unit at dan pearlman Markenarchitektur GmbH and as head of production at TAMSCHICK MEDIA + SPACE GmbH he was responsible for the production, postproduction, and implementation of large-scale installations worldwide.
In 2012, an idea to develop an immersive sound system that opens up completely new possibilities of working with sound in space was born. In 2014, FRAMED immersive projects GmbH & Co. KG was established and a development team led by founders Steffen Armbruster and Uli Dziallas began to realise the vision. The result: Usomo – unique sonic.
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Laura P. Spinadel
CEO/COO/Creative Director, BUSarchitektur & BOA büro für offensive aleatorik, Wien/Austria
Laura P. Spinadel
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Laura P. Spinadel (1958 Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine-Austrian architect, urban planner, writer, educator and principal of the companies BUSarchitektur and BOA office for advanced randomness in Vienna. She has made an international name for herself with the works Compact City and Campus WU, both considered pioneers of the holistic architecture ideology. She is Doctor Honoris Causa at the Civic Parliament of the Humanity, Transacademy Universal Institute of Nations. Currently, she is working on the future planning Urban Menus** an Interactive Society Game to create our cities in 3D using a consensual approach.
**Granting Promotion XL Innovation AWS austrian economy services of the Creative Industries (2017) & Impact Innovation funding Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG (2020).
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Willy Löbl & Maximilian Pfisterer
Creative Directors/Founders Frischvergiftung, Stuttgart
Willy Löbl & Maximilian Pfisterer
Frischvergiftung, based in Stuttgart, Germany is an interdisciplinary design studio that focusses on motion design applied in spatial experiences.
https://www.frischvergiftung.de/
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Sophie Kergaßner
Student, FB Event Media/Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart
Sophie Kergassner
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My name is Sophie, I am 20 years old and I am studying Audiovisual Media at the HdM in the 7th semester.I did my first production in the field of computer graphics. I spent my following internship in Berlin at an advertising and event agency. Here I came into contact with the event industry for the first time and liked it, which is why I did my second production in Event Media. In Somnium I focused on content creation as well as its processing. I was also involved in the development of the modules, their printing and finishing.
http://www.eventmedia-produktion.de/
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Moritz Stuhlfauth
Student, FB Event Media/Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart
Moritz Stuhlfauth
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I‘m Moritz Stuhlfauth, 24 years old, studying Audiovisual Media at the Stuttgart Media University since 2017. Two big productions during my studies – INSIGHTS – Monster im Kopf and Somnium – modular dreams – had me find my place in the world of media technology and software development, focussing on developing and producing 3D-printed parts, PCBs and software, as well as planning media technology systems for interactive installations. Alongside my study I‘m student employee at 17k GmbH in Stuttgart, where we realise interactive exhibits for museums and showrooms.
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Lukas Münter
Student, FB Event Media/Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart
Lukas Münter
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My name is Lukas, I am 22 years old and currently studying Audiovisual Media at Stuttgart Media University in the 8th semester. In my course of studies, I gained a lot of experience in the areas of event media, sound and conceptual design within the framework of several studio productions like INSIGHTS – Monster im Kopf and Somnium – Modular Dreams. At Somnium I could take on the role of director, which allowed me to extend my experience in that area.
During an internship at a media production company after my A-levels I came across the term of audiovisual media for the first time, so that my path eventually led me to Stuttgart.
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Christian Schlaeffer
Creative Director, Augsburg
Christian Schlaeffer
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Christian Schlaeffer studied Communikation Design in Augsburg and Animation at the Royal College of Art, London. His work encompasses animation, concept art, direction and VR-design. He teaches Narrative strategies at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg and is a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art.
http://www.schlaefferdesign.de/
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Barbara Flügge
Market Transformation Expert, digital value creators (DVC), Bottighofen/Switzerland
© 2020. digital value creators (DVC)
Barbara Flügge
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Dr. Barbara Flügge is a visionary and implementer. With the foundation of digital value creators (DVC), Barbara Flügge focuses on winning customers in new markets for her clients. Clients are companies, networks and communities that make use of Barbara’s networking, digitization and growth know-how as well as her global contact network. She develops smart services for product and service companies, uses platform strategies and examines the impact of location and position changes in urban ecosystems. The beneficiaries of Barbara Flügge’s solutions, role models and tools are teams, constituents, and locations. Leaders and managers that have an eye on the scalable results and a sustainable operating staff will match perfectly with Barbara.
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